Linux-Announce Digest #460, Volume #3 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:13:22 EDT
Contents:
WWW: Linus Torvalds live interview! (Christopher Kolar)
LOCAL/WANTED: South Peninsula of Cape Town LUG (Dave T Jones)
UPX 0.71 -- a high-performance executable packer ("Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer")
Consultants Howto ("Mr. Poet")
COMMERCIAL: Code Forge, Inc. is proud to announce C-Forge v1.2. (Nevin Kaplan)
KPSQL v.0.1 - A SQL GUI client for PostgresSQL / K Desktop ("Keith R. Davis")
wcd 2.2.5 - Chdir for DOS and Unix, w/C src (Erwin Waterlander)
WWW: Linux Gazette #40 (Linux Gazette)
COMMERCIAL: New ISE EiffelBench 4.3 available now for download ("Karl Cragger")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Kolar)
Subject: WWW: Linus Torvalds live interview!
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:13:36 GMT
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The Linux Show will be broadcasting live from the floor of the Linux
Pavilion at Spring Comdex '99. The live broadcasts will be all day on
Monday and Tuesday, April 19 and 20.
We will be interviewing Linus Torvalds live on Monday at 3 pm CST
(20:00 GMT). To listen to the broadcast, visit the show's web site at
http://www.ttalk.com/shows/thelinuxshow/thelinuxshow.shtml
We broadcast in RealAudio. Throughout both days we will be conducting
live interviews with industry leaders on the hour. Check in on the
half-hours to catch news and information about the people who will be
appearing throughout the day.
For weekly updates about he show and out guests (and no spam) send a
note to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- --chris
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Christopher Kolar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave T Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL/WANTED: South Peninsula of Cape Town LUG
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:28:48 GMT
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Would any South Africans in the South Peninsula of Cape Town please
contact me re the establishment of a LUG here in the KAlk BAy area, or
thereabouts.
I can be contacted here [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone me at 7885021 or
7886396.
Ask for David
Thank you
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From: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPX 0.71 -- a high-performance executable packer
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:29:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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We are pleased to announce the next public release of our
new executable packer UPX. The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
is a portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for
several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent
compression ratio and offers very fast decompression.
UPX can pack (and unpack) the following executable formats:
dos/exe, dos/sys, dos/com, djgpp2/coff, watcom/le,
win32/pe, rtm32/pe, tmt/adam, atari/tos and linux/i386
You can find UPX at:
http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
http://cdata.tvnet.hu/~ml/upx.html
This is the second release which includes support for compressed
Linux executables. UPX transparently compresses your ELF, AOUT,
Shell/Perl/Python/... scripts, Java bytecode, etc.
How it works:
Because Linux is a real operating system, the in-place in-memory
decompression scheme used in the other executable formats doesn't
work here.
Instead we must use temporary decompression to disk. Interestingly -
because of the good memory management of the Linux kernel - this
often does not introduce a noticable delay, and in fact there
will be no disk access at all if you have enough free memory as
the entire process takes places within the filesystem buffers.
A compressed executable consists of the UPX stub and an overlay
which contains the original program in a compressed form.
The UPX stub is a statically linked ELF executable and does
the following at program startup:
1) decompress the overlay to a temporary location in /tmp
2) open the temporary file for reading
3) delete the temporary file
4) start (execve) the uncompressed program in /tmp using
/proc/self/fd/X as attained by step 2)
The UPX stub is about 1900 bytes long, mostly written in assembler
and only uses kernel syscalls. It is not linked against any libc.
Spread and enjoy,
Markus & Laszlo
http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
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From: "Mr. Poet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Consultants Howto
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:49:52 GMT
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A New Consultants Howto has been posted to http://www.linuxports.com/
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From: Nevin Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Code Forge, Inc. is proud to announce C-Forge v1.2.
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:46:20 GMT
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Code Forge, Inc. is proud to announce C-Forge v1.2.
On Friday, April 16, 1999 version 1.2 was released containing many new
features We are sure you will be interested in:
* A new desktop with split table, tabbed panels and integrated File
Manager.
Multi-buffer SMED.
* Symbol Completion for C, C++, Objective C, Perl, Ada and Python.
* Many other enhancements and features.
We have also released an evaluation version on DEC Tru64 Unix (Digital
Unix).
Come to our web site and check it out!!!!
http://www.codeforge.com
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Nevin Kaplan - Director of Marketing
Code Forge, Inc.
www.codeforge.com
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From: "Keith R. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KPSQL v.0.1 - A SQL GUI client for PostgresSQL / K Desktop
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:25:45 GMT
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KPSQL v.0.1 - A SQL GUI client for PostgresSQL / K Desktop
A tool similar to Oracle's Server Manager motif worksheet
and Microsoft's Windows based SQL Server iSQL query
has been released:
This is an ALPHA release - use at your own risk!
KPSQL is distributed under the GNU GPL.
http://www.mutinybaysoftware.com/products.html
FEATURES:
* color syntax highlighting for the editor
* complete control of fonts and colors
* HTML table output for query results
* execute multiple SQL statements or one of many by highlighting
* support for drag and drop
* search/replace
* undo/redo
* cut/copy/paste
* bookmarks
* spool query output to a file
* spool data in fixed length, comma, tab or custom delimited format
* print (file or selection)
* online PostgreSQL help - (not implemented in this version)
REQUIREMENTS:
PostgresSQL 6.4+
Qt 1.42+
KDE 1.1+
libXxxx.so.6+
Keith Davis
Mutiny Bay Software
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: http://www.mutinybaysoftware.com
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From: Erwin Waterlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wcd 2.2.5 - Chdir for DOS and Unix, w/C src
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:26:55 GMT
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wcd 2.2.5 - Chdir for DOS and Unix, w/C src
Download from:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/
Changes:
2.2.5 Apr 15 1999
- bugfix pathfixing
2.2.4 Apr 14 1999
-DOS versions can use environment variable HOME
-pathfixing
-options -S, +S, -A, -E, -m, -M, -r, and -rmtree can be repeated.
Description:
WCD is a fast directory changer, another Norton Change Directory
(NCD) clone, for DOS and Unix.
This program jumps to a (sub)directory anywhere in the directory-tree.
(Unix: or to directories on other accounts.) The directory to jump to
can be given by only the first characters or a regular expression.
Also a part of the preceding path can be given. Eg. wcd src*/wcd
Features:
- Lets the user choose in case of multiple match
- Wildcards *, ? and [SET] supported
- directory stack
- Subdir definition possible. Eg. wcd subdira/subdirb
- Long directory-names support in Win95 Dosbox
- Alias directories
- Ban paths
- Change disk and drive in one go (dos)
- 'cd' behaviour. Eg. wcd ../../src will work.
- Free portable source-code (DOS 16/32 bit, Unix), no special
libraries
- Supports: DOS 16 bit, DOS 32 bit, DOS bash
Windows 3.1/95/98 DOS-box
Unix csh, ksh and bash
Wcd has been tested on: FreeDOS, MS-DOS 6.2, Win95, Win98,
Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, SGI IRIX.
Wcd should work on any PC (from XT to PentiumII) and can be
ported to any Unix system.
WCD is Freeware (GPL).
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Erwin Waterlander
Jongemastate 125
5655 HS Eindhoven
The Netherlands
www: http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/
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From: Linux Gazette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW: Linux Gazette #40
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:24:54 GMT
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"Linux Gazette...Making Linux just a little more fun!"
Linux Gazette is a freely available, WWW e-zine that includes short articles
giving tips and tricks, ideas and suggestions for customizing and running
Linux. It is a member of the Linux Documentation Project.
While we do not mail issues of LG to our readers--it's just too big--we do
have an announcement service. Write [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
word subscribe in the body, and each month you will receive an e-mail notice
when we post Linux Gazette.
Linux Gazette issue #40, Mid-April 1999, is out and can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/
For download purposes, individual issues of LG are available at:
ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/
A list of mirror sites can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html
This is an short mid-month EXTRA--enjoy it!
Topics in this issue include:
* The Front Page
* The MailBag
* News Bytes
* More 2 Cent Tips
* Corel Press Conference, by Dean Staff
* Creating a Linux Certification Program, Part 5, by Dan York
* Replacing Legacy Systems with Linux, by Bob Sparks
* The Back Page
Read all about it in Linux Gazette.
Marjorie L. Richardson
Editor, Linux Gazette
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From: "Karl Cragger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: New ISE EiffelBench 4.3 available now for download
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:26:05 GMT
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ISE is happy to announce that the freely downloadable version of EiffelBench
for ISE Eiffel 4.3 is now available for public download from ISE and mirror
sites. (Some mirrors may take a short while to update.)
ISE Eiffel 4.3 has been shipping to customers under maintenance since early
March on a range of platforms including Windows, Linux, Solaris, SGI, VMS,
Unixware and others. The downloadable versions are for Linux and Windows.
To download EiffelDemo, just go to http://eiffel.com and follow the links to
"DOWNLOAD". Make sure to download all that you need, in particular
precompiled libraries if desired.
The downloadable version is intended for evaluation of Eiffel. It includes
the full EiffelBench environment and a number of crucial libraries. It is
not a stripped-down or crippled version; its only difference with the
commercial version is that you are permitted to use it only for evaluation
purposes, not for regular use, whether commercial or academic.
Together with the environment we are making available a number of new
manuals (see the Web page). Note, however, that there is not yet a new
EiffelBench manual; a revised EiffelBench Guided Tour will be made available
by the end of April. We apologize for this delay, due to the massive
addition of new facilities and interface elements to 4.3.
You can find extensive information on 4.3 on the Web page (see
http://eiffel.com or, directly, http://eiffel.com/announcements/1999/4-3/).
4.3 is a major new release of ISE Eiffel, representing more than a year of
work, with the following highlights:
+ Spectacular compilation speed improvements (up to a factor of 5!).
+ Redesigned interface, more Windows-standard, switch projects from
within EiffelBench, more intuitive debugging.
+ Major language innovations: iterators, tuples, agents
+ Creation expressions
+ Finally, creation of generics: create x for x of type G
in class C [G] -- type-safe!
+ Generic conformance: A [Y] conforms to A [X] only if Y conforms
to X -- critical for reliable software.
+ DLL (Dynamic Link Libraries) generation, and runtime as DLL,
on Unix, Linux, and Windows.
+ Greatly improved EiffelCase for roundtrip engineering: continuous
process from analysis to design, implementation and back.
+ EiffelCOM now allows you to build ActiveX controls.
+ New EiffelVision library (beta) using the GTK toolkit.
+ Plus many other improvements and additions and, of course,
the full power of Eiffel.
Many more details and technical papers on the Web site.
We hope you enjoy the new version.
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Karl Cragger
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ISE Building, 2nd floor, 270 Storke Road, Goleta CA 93117
805-685-1006, fax 805-685-6869,
Customer support: http://support.eiffel.com
Product information: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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